CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE, 2009 EXERCISE:

Implementing rules

The certification procedure allows officials, members of the Assistants' function group (AST), with no career restriction and in grades 5 upwards, to be appointed to an Administrator (AD) job and become members of the AD function group.

The 2009 certification exercise shall be implemented on the basis of the general implementing provisions⁽¹⁾ (GIPs) adopted by the Commission on 20 November 2007 and according to the modalities defined in the two following decisions of the appointing authority:

• Decision on the number of officials authorised to follow the training programme, setting the number at 110;
   
• Decision defining the detailed rules for applying the admission, ranking and pre-selection criteria.

The content of these two decisions, adopted on 14th October 2009, is published hereafter.⁽²⁾
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Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ Decision C(2007) 5694 of 20 November 2007 laying down the general provisions for implementing Article 45a of the Staff Regulations.
⁽²⁾ The text of the Appointing Authority decisions is available on the Intacomm/PersAdmin site dedicated to the 2009 certification exercise – see http://www.cc.cec/pers_admin/certification/2009_exercise_en.html & http://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu/hr_admin/en/certification/Pages/2009_exercise.aspx.